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Quietude vs Solitude - What's the difference?

quietude | solitude |

As nouns the difference between quietude and solitude

is that quietude is tranquility while solitude is aloneness; state of being alone or solitary, by oneself.

quietude

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • tranquillity

    • Synonyms

    * (tranquility) peace, serenity, tranquility

    solitude

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia solitude)
  • Aloneness; state of being alone or solitary, by oneself.
  • A lonely or deserted place.
  • * 1813 , , Canto 2, stanza 20:
    • Mark where his carnage and his conquests cease!
    He makes a solitude , and calls it — peace.

    Synonyms

    * aloneness

    Antonyms

    * intimacy

    Derived terms

    * two solitudes

    Related terms

    * sole * solo * soliloquy * solitary * solitudinous * solitudinously

    See also

    * loneliness ----